Envisioning Reform: Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin AmericaJudicial reform became an important part of the agenda for development in Latin America early in the 1980s, when countries in the region started the process of democratization. Connections began to be made between judicial performance and market-based growth, and development specialists turned their attention to “second generation” institutional reforms. Although considerable progress has been made already in strengthening the judiciary and its supporting infrastructure (police, prosecutors, public defense counsel, the private bar, law schools, and the like), much remains to be done. Linn Hammergren’s book aims to turn the spotlight on the problems in the movement toward judicial reform in Latin America over the past two decades and to suggest ways to keep the movement on track toward achieving its multiple, though often conflicting, goals. After Part I’s overview of the reform movement’s history since the 1980s, Part II examines five approaches that have been taken to judicial reform, tracing their intellectual origins, historical and strategic development, the roles of local and international participants, and their relative success in producing positive change. Part III builds on this evaluation of the five partial approaches by offering a synthetic critique aimed at showing how to turn approaches into strategies, how to ensure they are based on experiential knowledge, and how to unite separate lines of action. |
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... institutions. See the Economist, August 7, 2004, 63, for a brief discussion. 40. José Juan Toharia (above) has a wonderful story to illustrate this problem as recounted in a speech to a World Bank group. In conducting survey research on ...
... institutional strengthening repertoire. The first of these is the issue of access or the provision of judicial services to groups traditionally excluded from their benefits. Rather surprisingly, this had not come up earlier except in ...
... institution building (called capacity building) to a lower position. See usaid (2000, 2002a) for the agency's self-assessment of the results. 48. See Álvarez and Highton (2000) for a review of programs throughout the region. 49. Both ...
... institutions' modest operating budgets. Even if they wished to do field investigations they usually lacked funds for transportation or access to vehicles. Forensics laboratories and other facilities to process physical evidence were ...
... institutional strengthening measures to combat traditional weaknesses and vices that would also impede the code's effective enactment. Not all programs have included all of these measures. Even those included show enormous variations in ...
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Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren Limited preview - 2010 |
Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn A. Hammergren No preview available - 2007 |